Painless statistics Learning statistics has never been so easy...or so painless
Book - 2022
"Whether you're a student or an adult looking to refresh your knowledge, Barron's Painless Statistics provides review and practice in an easy, step-by-step format." --
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New York :
Barron's Educational Series
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- Subtitle from cover.
- Physical Description
- ix, 306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9781506281582
- How to Use This Book
- Chapter 1. An Introduction to Data
- An Example of Working with Data
- The Center of a Data Set
- The Spread of a Data Set
- Interpreting Data
- Brain Ticklers-The Answers
- Chapter 2. Data and Representations
- Types of Data
- Representations of Data
- Discrete Data vs. Continuous Data
- Brain Ticklers-The Answers
- Chapter 3. Descriptive Statistics
- Measures of Center
- Measures of Spread
- Deviation
- Brain Ticklers-The Answers
- Chapter 4. Distributions of Data
- The Shape of Data
- The Uniform Distribution
- The Binomial Distribution
- The Geometric Distribution
- Other Distributions
- Brain Ticklers-The Answers
- Chapter 5. The Normal Distribution
- Normally Distributed Data
- Comparing Data Using z-Scores
- Standard Normal Tables
- When to Use the Normal Distribution
- Brain Ticklers-The Answers
- Chapter 6. The Fundamentals of Probability
- Basic Probability
- Properties of Probability
- The Binomial Probability Distribution
- Brain Ticklers-The Answers
- Chapter 7. Conditional Probability
- The Basics of Conditional Probability
- Independent Events
- Bayes' Theorem
- Brain Ticklers-The Answers
- Chapter 8. Statistical Sampling
- Populations and Samples
- Sampling Distributions
- Sample Proportions
- Sample Means
- Brain Ticklers-The Answers
- Chapter 9. Confidence Intervals
- Making Inferences from Data
- Estimating with Confidence
- Different Levels of Confidence
- Population Proportions and Standard Error
- Brain Ticklers-The Answers
- Chapter 10. Statistical Significance
- Significance Testing
- One-Sided and Two-Sided Tests
- Type I and Type II Errors
- Brain Ticklers-The Answers
- Chapter 11. Bivariate Statistics
- The Basics of Bivariate Data
- Correlation
- Linear Regression
- Brain Ticklers-The Answers
- Chapter 12. Statistical Literacy
- Experiments and Studies
- Surveys and Polls
- Evaluating the Validity of Statistical Arguments
- Brain Ticklers-The Answers
- Appendix: Standard Normal Table
- Index